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Students showcase biculturalism during Hispanic Heritage Month

Grand Rapids Erin Albanese

Lessons all month focus on Hispanic culture, contributions...

Christmas in August wraps up

Classrooms for All Alexis Stark

After 15 years serving West Michigan schools, School Supplies Santa goes out the way it came in: providing teachers with school supplies for the new school year...

The kind of learning students remember

Guest Commentary School News Network

A Van Andel Institute staffer is ‘electrified’ seeing students immersed in project-based learning. It’s already taken hold in many area public schools...

Empathy, flexibility, routine as both plus and minus

School 2.0 Morgan Jarema

Educators from Northview and Forest Hills districts weigh in on what they’ve learned...

Two years into pandemic, how are teachers holding up?

School 2.0 Charles Honey

From virtual instruction to student mental-health issues, three veteran teachers weigh in on how the pandemic has affected their work...

In America, opportunity cost is the lives of children

Issues in Education Erin Albanese

In the wake of yet another mass school shooting, the hopeful voices of second-graders offer a better vision of America...

Friends spell it out with personalized books

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

LINKS relationships often span years and extend well beyond the school day...

The money’s there for students’ mental-health struggles. The people aren’t

Youth Mental Health Charles Honey

Pandemic-fueled student anxiety and depression are overloading school mental-health services...

Named West Michigan Counselor of the Year by the West Michigan Counseling Association, Bari Kane strives to build relationships with her students, be a good listener and resource for mental health support...

Staff shortages, increased school funding create conundrum

Issues in Education Erin Albanese

School districts finally have money in hand for new staff and programming, but are facing a lack of workers to fill positions...

Remembering the big picture of education

Grandville School News Network

A Grandville High School graduate’s project to save salamanders in the U.P. offers a model for “big-picture” education, a Van Andel Institute for Education editor says...